Reuters: UK security firm says employee killed in Iraq-paper

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UK security firm says employee killed in Iraq-paper
19 Nov 2006 07:51:41 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Corrects name of the company throughout to Securiforce) KUWAIT, Nov 19
(Reuters) - Securiforce, a UK-based firm that provides security services in Iraq,
said that one of its employees was killed and three others injured in violence
in Iraq on Friday, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Sunday.

Arab Times quoted a company spokesman as saying by telephone from London
that "one of our men has been killed and his body is being kept at the British
Military Hospital at Basra and the three who suffered injuries are also being
treated there".

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The Securiforce spokesman, identified as Thomas, declined to give the names
of the victims as the next of kin of the deceased has yet to be informed,
the English-language daily said.

Arab Times said the spokesman also refused to discuss the nature of the work
the men were performing or for how long they had been in Iraq.

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